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Daredevil made his comeback this past weekend preparing Matt Murdock, fallen in battle, against his great enemy of the first season, the Kingpin, in a battle for Matt's soul. All in all, it's a season that attacks the classic Daredevil themes of the rights and disadvantages of vigilance – but here are some points in particular that we liked and did not like.
We liked that …
Matt was completely torn and rebuilt again
One of the "joys" of Daredevil as a character is that on the page and on the screen, he is almost funnily wretched. Whether it's literally all that happened to Matt in the comics or the seemingly endless guilt of the series, Matt Murdock has almost to suffer. It's something DaredevilThe third season is difficult, as it continues The defenders"A decisive act of literally letting an entire building fall on him – but he does so in a way that not only exploits this misery for great moments, but also leaves Matt in an atmosphere that feels at least considerably happier than It has not been since the show started.
On the front of misery, the second episode of the season, "Please", is a highlight of Matt at its lowest. He struggles physically with the aftermath of all that is being blamed on him, while questioning his fragile relationship with his faith, getting a breathtaking performance of Charlie Cox as Matt and Peter McRobbie as Father Lantom. But it is an internal conflict that is likely to simmer forever. DaredevilMatt's third season, which ultimately resulted in Matt's final confrontation with Kingpin, a battle that brings him closer to Karen and Foggy, allowed him to try to get a life-like appearance outside of Devil of Hell's Kitchen. . Now that he's really interested in his comic subtitle of The Fearless Man, he's probably not going to last. is Daredevil we're talking about, after all, but it was a worthy story, connecting the elements that have persisted in Matt's growth since the very first season.
Karen must play a huge and tragic role (without dying)
Karen has experienced boom in the past three seasons of Daredevil, to be accused of murder, to commit it. Most of his time in the series and series of accompaniment The punisher– I spent my time trying to discover truths and not to be murdered. But season three finally plunged into his past and gave his journalistic scenario a bit of realism.
It may seem odd that Karen's murder of Fisk's best friend, James Wesley, was never discovered, but the revelation was used with great effect. Especially when you consider her story that included a troubled young woman from Vermont selling (and consuming) drugs and trying to keep her family's dinner afloat. All of this tragically escalated the night after Karen's brother tried to move her away from her drug-smuggling boyfriend. The fight that followed led Karen to use her boyfriend's gun to shoot him and save his brother, to finish more horribly. As she walks away from the scene, Karen, drunk and drunk, crushes the car and kills her brother. The police and her father helped hide her role so that she would not end up in jail, but it was the break that would ruin her relationship with her father forever. Now, think back to the first season and his conversation with Wesley after he was kidnapped: He said, "Do you really think I would put a loaded weapon on the table where you could touch it?" To which Karen replies, "I do not do not do". I do not know, do you really think it's the first time I shoot someone?
"The Devil You Know" had a fierce battle between Daredevil and Fauxdevil but that's not what will stay with us since this episode. It is rather the murder by Fauxdevil of almost all of Karen's colleagues. We do not know exactly when the idea of this scene was born, but it's too close to the actual filming of the capital Gazette earlier this year. Karen's introspection of journalism was never very satisfying, but her perseverance at finding out the truth despite everything that had happened at her workplace sounded just right and Deborah Ann Woll gave the performance the weight that she deserved. (The scene with all the cell phones turned off in the proof bags completely destroyed us.) Despite all the danger it was running at that time, it was a relief for the series not to feel the need to follow through with the story of Karen's comic book. and kill her too.
The fighting scenes were flashy and Character
DaredevilThe action only improved as the show evolved, but despite all the ninja-tastic show of the season 2 fights, they lacked some of the spark symbolic and narrative that made the battle scenes of the first season so convincing in the first place. Two fights in particular stand out the most in season 3 (though screaming at the very cool Daredevil / Fauxdevil fight between Matt and Dex in "The Devil You Know"). The first is the traditional one-shot "taken in the hallway" of episode 4, "Blindsided". It's an exhausting and visceral work of an epic length while Matt is trying to escape a trapped trap set up by Fisk is as exciting to watch as it's exhausting to understand even a sequence (11 minutes!) that truly illustrates the courage and determination that makes Matt Daredevil, to the realization of Fisk himself.
The other is the triplet between Fisk, Matt and Poindexter, less impeccable but just as heavy, not only because of the hectic and disorderly pace of the fight, because three very different characters, with different motivations, are combined (speaking of things are mushed, Ouch(Dex's spine), but because of the way this ultimately leads to the crisis of faith in Matt's struggle to find out whether he can or can not end Kingpin's life as a redeeming act . We have always loved DaredevilIt's grain, but it was good to see this grain serve a little more than just seeing blows.
Bullseye has a frightening and convincing origin
If your only familiarity with the evil Marvel Comics came from the 2003 film starring Colin Farrell as Bullseye, it was … uh … not that. Thank God.
Wilson Bethel, our American future, plays Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter, an agent of the FBI too easily seduced by the charm of Fisk. Why? He was already black. Great dark. In a revealing flashback episode, we discover three very important things: 1) Dex started killing at a very young age; 2) it has an extremely precise purpose; and 3) his psychiatrist was his anchor. And then she is dead!
While the model of the prepared scene rubbed us badly, it is an interesting change of rhythm for the series which gives us a very clear glimpse of what led this character. Of course, he was responsible for law enforcement, but only until they gave up on it too, letting Fisk fill that hole to structure his life. We do not believe this is one of those stories of "villain can be redeemed" – his insistence that he was not hounding Julie was laughable – but an interesting reflection on the proximity of heroes and villains sometimes.
We did not like that …
The fall of the agent Nadeem has not really landed
Two FBI agents have an important role to play in Kingpin's major projects: the aforementioned Poindexter / Bullseye and the poor agent Ray Nadeem, who finds his life slowly destroyed from the outside by the machinations of Fisk.
Jay Ali does a wonderful job in the role – and Nadeem is probably the best that the MCU / Netflix universe has had so far, taking control of the police to help our vigilante hero. But in a season that was already putting a lot of emphasis on Disk's quick corruption of Fisk, adding Nadeem's push under Fisk's thumb seemed a bit of a repetition, even though Nadeem had at least the right to redeem himself before his untimely death, handing over the evidence that would eventually return Kingpin to prison. If Bullseye was not already such an important part of season 3, Nadeem would have been an unquestionable ally turned into an antagonistic ally, but by his side, it seems a bit too dumb.
The total control of Kingpin is a bit too practical
Speaking of Fisk, we know he's supposed to be a criminal mastermind, but his more and more elaborate plan of revenge on Daredevil seems a bit as well brain-y for his own good. Although Fisk has had plenty of time in jail for compoting and plotting, the immediacy with which he manages to bring people under his influence, to separate Matt's life little by little, is more like the unstoppable march of the conspiracy to Fisk's more sinister plans have therefore come into being as they did for season 1. Especially when there are unforeseen items, such as l & # 39; the arrival of Dex and Vanessa's growing involvement in the criminal activities of Fisk. Of course, it's the latter that ends up sealing the agreement on Fisk's return to custody, when Matt reveals that he knows Vanessa has hired the tube for Nadeem rather than for Fisk, but put aside that weak spot everything else could sometimes seem a little harder. as well Slick in favor of Fisk.
Misty still feels like a third wheel
Oh, foggy. You are awesome! But you are rather boring, all things considered. This season, we've been trying to fill Foggy's dance card a bit by letting us discover more about her family, her love affair and her career, but none of this has really had an impact. And when you compare her season to that of Karen, there is no comparison possible. His run to the post of prosecutor could have placed him in a much more interesting position for next season (though is next season, given the sudden end of the two Luke Cage and Iron fist recently), but even that fizzled after just gaining traction. Misty needs one thing. Let him have one thing! And do not say it's Matt.
There were some strange little contradictions that we could not let slip
Look. This is the superhero television. There is a certain amount of hand in hand allowed. But after watching the superhero television a lot, there are still a few things that make us secondary tactics to move a plot forward. This time, there have been a few:
- You know how much Matt was upset by Elektra's death at the beginning of the season? How many moaning he did about it? He just … passed. To be honest, it took a few episodes of moaning, but once he found Fisk in the brain, Elektra and those strange happenings in Midland Circle were completely forgotten. It does not matter. We are sure that she is fine.
- Sister Maggie was great. Joanne Whalley's dry delivery was everything. Someone to tell Matt that he is an idiot is always welcome. That's why it was so strange that Sister Maggie prays aloud her great confession: that she is Matt's mother. Not only did she do it out loud, but she did it after having previously established that Matt can literally hear everything going on in the church above him. OK Mom.
- Living in New York is not cheap! Some people have the mistaken impression that the employers here give a salary corresponding to the cost of living compared to the same job elsewhere. You are wrong. That's why it was so strange to know that Karen-I-A-Low-Reporter-Page covered the rent of Matt's Hell's Kitchen for months. She does not even have a roommate in her own apartment, you tell me she wears two NYC renting a journalist's salary? This is perhaps the most incredible thing of all Marvel Netflix superhero shows. And we know Iron fist season 1 exists!
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